NEW YORK — The World Wrestling Federation will produce “WWF Divas,” a one-hour primetime entertainment special for UPN in March that’ll be similar to the annual TV edition of the “Sports Illustrated ...

PASADENA Executives from the struggling UPN network yesterday defended their decision to air professional wrestling in prime time this fall and dismissed criticism that the programing was sexist and ...

UPN owes a lot to “WWF Smackdown!” (7 p.m. Thursday, WPWR-Ch. 50), which has targeted Salt Lake City as the site for its first-ever live broadcast (the show is also scheduled to go live next Thursday ...

Professional wrestling is not violent. Professional wrestling is not sexist. And the tooth fairy will lift UPN out of sixth place. Despite slams from TV critics, UPN president Dean Valentine insists ...

2001-01-06 04:00:00 PDT Pasadena-- It appears that UPN will always be the socially awkward kid, wearing black, sitting in the corner sullenly, defiantly doing things its way and everybody else can ...

PRO-WRESTLING’S WWF is taking a dive for MTV’s Video Music Awards this week. “WWF Smackdown!,” the highest rated show on Viacom-owned UPN, aired last night instead of Thursday thanks to a request from ...

UPN is close to pacting with World Wrestling Federation Entertainment and Paramount Network Television for “Manhunt,” a new hourlong reality skein that combines elements of “WWF Smackdown” with ...

The centerpiece of UPN’s new strategy is a Thursday-night pro-wrestling show “WWF Smackdown! ” that will attempt to cash in on the wave of the phenomenon’s surging popularity. In an unusual ...

May 29 -- Round 1 goes to the World Wrestling Federation. Variety reports a federal judge in New York last week threw out a motion filed by the Parents Television Council, which was seeking to have ...

NEW YORK --The XFL pro-football league has folded after only one season, throwing its partners NBC and the World Wrestling Federation for a $70 million loss. In a conference call with reporters, WWF ...

PASADENA, Calif. – Main man Vince McMahon is standing at a bar set up in the middle of a tent-topped wrestling ring in the Horseshoe Gardens area of the posh Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel. If that’s ...